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Is the Symbian Foundation DOA?

When Nokia announced that it was launching the Symbian Foundation to great fanfare, it had within its grasp that rarest of opportunities to move swiftly and become the dominant open source mobile platform. Alas, just one and a half years later, they have seemingly ceded that position to Android. Instead of recognizing the threat from Android and making strategic changes to counter, they instead criticized Google's closed-door development of Android before releasing a line of code themselves. When criticizing competitors, it helps to have your own house in order first.

?In October, the Symbian Foundation released the Symbian kernel sources to the world, and the rest of the world (read: developers) collectively responded, Great. Where's my Android phone? I've often lauded Google for its ability to fuse the marketing, PR and developer benefits of open source projects into one seemless operation. It would seem that Symbian could stand to learn a few things. The question is, is it too late?



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Nokia leaks phone with full GNU/Linux distribution. Unlike Google's Linux platform, Nokia is not intentionally breaking compatibility with real distros.

Open source and healthcare reform: good news and bad. Could open source mess up a truly integrated digital infrastructure for healthcare?

How open source saved enterprise IT. Open source is becoming more like the market that it arose out of.

Open source equivalent applications for the average user. If you were weaned on proprietary Windows apps, what are the free, open source equivalents?



No Buy-In for Access Linux: A Bad Sign for Mobile Linux?

Are we about to see more competitors pulling out of the mobile Linux race? Recently, researchers at J. Gold and Associates produced a report predicting that Google's Linux-based Android platform would merge with the new and open source mobile platform from Symbian,ﾠ pitting two huge Goliaths (Google and Nokia) against any Davids who might dare to produce Linux-based handsets. While it's pure speculation that that might ever happen, a sign of weakening confidence on the mobile Linux front has appeared: The Access Linux Platform's initial and only smartphone project was recently rubbished. Orange is bailing on its plan to deliver a Samsung smartphone running Access Linux.


Symbian to Go Open Source, Nokia to Buy Out Symbian Shares

There's more momentum on the mobile open source front. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT Docomo announced today that they will unite Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) into one open mobile software platform. In addition, the Symbian Foundation is now formed, with many prominent early members, including AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. Nokia will also buy out the remaining shares of Symbian Limited that it doesn't already own, for $410 million. Is Nokia only aiming to stop paying hefty Symbian license fees, or does this point to a promising new open source mobile platform? What does this mean for Linux phones?


Can Linux Take 20 Percent of the Mobile Market?

Earlier this year, at the Mobile World Congress conference, there were more than 20 new mobile phones based on Linux announced, most of them using the LiMo platform. Google's Android solution is also stoking the fire, and promises to bring much open source technology to mobile handsets. Now, ABI Research has a report out predicting that as soon as 2010, 20 percent of mid- and high-end mobile devices will run a Linux operating system.



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At the AjaxWorld conference, companies are demonstrating web applications to run on the iPhone, and open source tools for developing them.....

Linux and open source applications are gaining increasing traction among Brazilian companies, according to CRN Brazil.....

The WirelessMoves blog has an interesting discussion and a link to a podcast from Ari Jaaksi, Nokia's open source guru.....